Nikita, explain this shit!

https://www.rt.com/russia/482020-deadly-dry-ice-pool-party/

Three people have died and more are in hospital after a birthday surprise at a Moscow party had unforeseen consequences. Video shows dry ice being poured into a pool for effect, inadvertently creating a carbon dioxide gas chamber.
The chilling incident occurred at a Moscow sauna late on Friday. Ekaterina Didenko, an Instagram blogger with over a million subscribers, was celebrating her 29th birthday with her family and friends.


No-one expected the festivities to turn into a tragedy when the blogger’s husband Valentin presented the guests with a surprise treat. The man brought out a large amount of dry ice – solid carbon dioxide – and after everyone donned symbolic ‘protection’, he poured it into a pool to create the fancy mist effect for everyone to take photos and videos.


Footage of the fateful moment emerged online on Saturday. It shows the revelers wearing improvised protective costumes and goggles and gathered by a small indoor pool. One of them reads the instructions aloud, jokingly warning that the dry ice might be very dangerous before pouring the substance into the pool. The guests then proceed to jump in, with the bravest one submerging himself completely – while one of the onlookers jokes “He’s dead, he’s not with us anymore.”

Explanation: low IQ.

Apparently IQ does indeed exist, and no amount of university diplomas and BSc degrees could fix it, because that Didenko has MD diploma, which implies she should have knew humans can't breathe CO2. But you know, knowing a textbook fact and applying it to real life are two completely different subjects.

This is the kind of stupidity we have all across Eastern Europe. I remember an incident some years back where several teenagers died while trying to get into a club that you can only enter by descending some stairs about 3 meters below ground. The stairs had ice on them, as it was a cold night and instead of entering one by one, the teenagers stampeded, slipped and crushed each other.

Niggita Happy-Cough